Acquiring a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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A DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a persistent identifier that can be used to permanently identify your dataset.
This makes your data easily citable, and allows the tracking of the re-use of your dataset within data citation indexes.
To obtain a DOI for your dataset, you must:

Ensure that you have already created a CAASM metadata record to describe your dataset and that your data have been provided to the AADC for archiving.
If you do not have a metadata record linked to submitted data please contact the AADC metadata officer (metadata@aad.gov.au).

Use the search tool below to find the metadata record which describes your dataset, then follow the prompts to request a DOI.